Its output is a gopher menu you can browse yourself or host publically. It looks a bit like the Recent Changes of a wiki. New items show up at the top and disappear from the bottom so everybody is just mentioned once.

What about
Bongusta, asks logout. I don’t know. Bongusta was the first site where I saw phlogs from outside SDF. That was very important for me, and I imagine it will remain important in the future. Having a well known starting point is important.

Plus, if gopherspace grows, we will soon run into preferences. Perhaps I would like to avoid this phlog or that phlog, or I’ll want to add a phlog that somebody else doesn’t want to add. The freedom to do different is important to me, even if there is no immediate need for it right now.

It’s cool to have a tool that enables people to run their own aggregators without people feeling like they need to. It’s like any other freedom: you are free to service your own car, but you are also free to take a cab, or hitch a ride, or anything else. How many different kinds of public aggregators will we need in a world where 28 of 36 phlogs I follow are on SDF and I guess the total number of sites I might be interested in is not much more than that? One? Two? Three? Not much more than that is my guess. And that’s why Bongusta absolutely has a place, even if there are tools that enable other people to run similar sites. So, having the freedom to run an aggregator is super cool, even if there is just a need to run one or two.

In short, I would love for Bongusta to stay.

– Alex Schroeder 2018-02-06 20:50 UTC

And then there’s auzymoto’s post talking about two kinds of subscriptions: subscribe to changes to a gophermap like moku pona does. or actually spider a site and look for changes. Auzymoto also lists some pitfalls for this: links leaving the site, circular links, stuff like that. And I’d also think about all the false positives I can see. I’m not interested in all the new links, I think. I’m just looking for new day posts. Perhaps a possible compromise is to subscribe to gophermaps and list any addition to that gopher map in the aggregated view? It would only work one or two levels deep, I guess. Perhaps that is limited enough for it work.

– Alex Schroeder 2018-02-06 21:09 UTC

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